County Girl♥ 
 

Chapter 24
 
The wind blowing made my hair fly back to move with breeze.
I’d been going out a lot, but not with friends.
Just by myself, I needed some alone time.
Finally reaching my destination I pulled open the door.
I took a seat at the Café, the booths were worn out, but still comfortable.
The woman who owned the small shop was Darcy.
She was about my grandmother age, they were best friends.
Every now and then I come here alone to catch up with her, ever since my grandmother passed away in late fall.
 She’s been lonely.
So I’ve just been trying to fill in that wanted friendship she lost.
“Well, hello there darling!”
Darcy took a seat in the booth across from me.
She looked tired, she always does now.
Last month my mother told me that Darcy is just too old and worn out to have that need to live anymore.
“Hey Darcy, how have you been?”
“Err, tired. You caught me at a good time, I was just coming back from giving flowers to Raymond and Nathaniel’s graves.” Her expression dropped from a weak smile, to a loss of connection to the world.
I’ll never forget the story she told me about that night.
“Darcy, how come you don’t have kids like my grandma does?” My innocent young voice asked.
“Well, I use to.”
My interests got higher.
“What happened to them?”
She looked up at me, “I’m not sure this is a appropriate story to tell you.”
I looked up at her with my best puppy dog look, “Pleeeease!”
“Errr, fine. You see 20 years ago I use to have a beautiful 8 year old boy, with a wonderful husband.”
“Well, were are they? Did they go away?”
I always interrupt.
“Kind of, one night my son, Nathaniel wanted to go out for icecream. My husband Raymond volunteered to take him. They got into a car accident. They’ve been with God ever since.”
“Oh, I’m sorry, if I had known I would had come later.”
“Oh no sweety, its fine, I love your company. You’re just like your grandma.” Darcy said in a pitiful tone.
I gave her a smile.
One of her workers came to our table in a panic.
“Oh Darcy! We burnt 5 orders already! The grill just keeps burning them!”
Darcy looked up at me, “Listen, be at my house tonight at 5, I’ll cook dinner. That way we can catch up.”
“Okay, I’d love that.”
Just like that, I was alone again.
The thought I’d been wanting to get rid of came back, once again.
Zach.Zach.Zach.Zach.Zach.
“No! Shut up, I don’t care about that stupid city boy!”
I screeched, only realizing the whole café was looking at me.
Did I seriously just say that out oud?
Darcy came out of the kitchen, “Are you okay?”
Even she heard it?
“Yeah, I’m fine.”
I ran out of there as fast as I could.
Running into him.